Parking. Loading bay

If it is a private carpark, their rules. On street parking is within the hours specified on the street signs.

You're free to park there.

See here:

No, it's a clearway sign that allows parking for loading at the times indicated. Only commercially taxed vehicles can park there between 6-11 for 30 minutes

The red x sign means clearway (no parking). As above, the exception is that it can be used as a commercial loading bay Monday to Saturday from 6am to 11am only with a maximum stay of 30 mins for loading.

I don't see what grounds you would have to appeal.

If only there was a book that explained all these signs to drivers…..🤔🤔 maybe it could be a bestseller!

Loading bays are for loading and unloading. Were you loading or unloading?

The top sign is the important one stating that it is a clear way in both directions with the loading bay sign providing relief from that within the stated hours. Clear way means no stopping, not just no parking.

Lots of people do seem to forgotten that little requirement for use of loading bays though. They’re often used for all day parking for construction vans.

Yes, I love making up scenarios that I see happening regularly.

Maybe a theory test should be mandatory for everyone who wishes to renew their drivers license. Regardless of whether a theory test was taken or not when they originally got it.

Years ago, on a car show in the Netherlands, the Dutch authority for driver's licenses had a stand and they took mock theory tests. Of my "class" of about twenty people, only two would have passed. Now there were also a few children in there, but for the majority of the people over 18 at such an event you'd expect them to have a driver's license.

Although even the amount of younger people I see here with no lights or with fog lights in the rain (was a bit wet yesterday on the M50) doesn't bode well for the effectiveness of theory tests.